WSP03626

• File Number: 8200.300.40.A
• Description: Colorado River Compact
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Date: 1/30/1922
• Author: Co. R Compact Comm.
• Title: Minutes of Colorado Compact Commission - Meeting #7
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Publication

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MR. HOOVER: We have not been able to get to any agreement on

a general single idea for a compact. Therefore, this session has

no result except to define differences. The question arises, is

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it worth while to have another session? Or shall we make the de-

claration nw that we are so hopelessly far apart that there is

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no use in proceeding? Do the Commissioners think there is any

basis of arriving at an agreement?

MR. NORYIEL: I do not think we should foreclose our meetings
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at this time. I think/~le should hold the matter "opEm and

be subject to a call of the Chairman; if after furuher investi-
gation and study, after we got home and think over the subject,

we think we can do better at another session, then we will notifY

you and another session should be called~
either
MR. SCRUGFllN: We ,.,ill/ malte or not make effective, the intent

of Congress and the state Legislatures in creating this Commission,

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within the next few months. I believe that we have made a failure

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thus far. If ~le cannot get hannonious action~ we might as well

quit. I believe that we are wasting our time if we cannot come

to some substantial agreement at an early date.

not
MR. CALDvJELL: I would like to dissent from that view. It may/

be near so hopeless as you think. In fact, I never felt qualified

to come to an agreement on this important matter at this time, and

I have so expressed myself before this Commission. If this Com-

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ndssion, however, all excepting myself, feels that it is a waste

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of time to continue further, I do not think I should impose my ob-

jection"on this Commission. I do think it would be a very serious

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